-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/28/07 16:30, Tim Hull wrote: > > > Sure other OSs do: Try convincing OpenBSD that you want a newer kernel. > They'll tell you to wait six months. OTOH, NetBSD is a hacker's dream. > Take your pick. FreeBSD may also do what you need but I haven't used it > yet. > > I agree that it would be nice to have something a litle more often than > we get with Stable but a little more stable than Testing, but it > doesn't > exist. To make it exist would pull developers' time from the system as > it stands.
There actually are other distros besides Debian. Maybe one of them better suits OP's needs. > For this reason, and not in any way to tell you to go away, you may wish > to consider one of the BSDs. They can run binary linux apps in > compatibility mode while having a large repository of packages ready to > install. Their pkg_add is very similar to apt-get; I haven't found > anything equivalent to aptitude ncurses interface. > > > > I must say I definitely did consider that. FreeBSD looks like a lot of > what I may want - it's ports is second only to Debian's package tree in > software available, and each port can be updated independently. On the > other hand, its hardware support lags behind Linux somewhat. Debian > actually seemed most in line with what I wanted, as it seems like the > least monolithic of the distributions and the most stable. I even seem > to remember a Debian developer speak of incorporating backports and > making stable images with updated kernels for hardware support available > at some point. That's what Volatile is for. > In any case, I don't mean to irritate anyone. I'm just pointing out > what I have found, by far, to be the #1 drawback of most Linux > distributions - either you're stuck with what the distro gives you for n > months, you install packages from some unofficial repo (if you're > lucky), or you futz with tarballs - and see if anyone is working on > solutions/is doing anything other than the obvious. As I mentioned before, many upstream authors make RPMs of their creations. Maybe Fedora really would be better for you. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGq/2dS9HxQb37XmcRAi00AKDgTryCMoO337bQkSkv8Q4lAZrlRACgukn2 NtefOcSmbo2T7HLH0ZsHHDE= =0DMZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
